Dr. Michael Huff is the Director of the African American Health Disparities Project (AAHDP)—a project of the Hospital Council of Northern & Central California—serving the African American community in San Francisco. For more than 20 years, he has worked as an educator and practitioner. Dr. Huff has been trained as an academic researcher in sociology and earned a doctoral degree in sociology from Northwestern University.

Dr. Huff’s mission as a director is to serve as a bridge between the African American community and the hospitals. His vision is to help create a world where everybody wins—finding common ground where it exists, and building it where it is needed.  The AAHDP works in four areas: Access to health care, Chronic, Disease, Communicable Disease, and Violence.